How to display a JSON representation and not [Object Object] on the screen

Question

If you want to see what you you have inside an object in your web app, then use the json pipe in a component HTML template, for example:

<li *ngFor="let obj of myArray">{{obj | json}}</li>

Tested and valid using Angular 4.3.2.

We can use angular pipe json

{{ jsonObject | json }}

To loop through JSON Object : In Angluar's (6.0.0+), now they provide the pipe keyvalue :

<div *ngFor="let item of object| keyvalue">
  {{ item.key }} - {{ item.value }}
</div>

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To just display JSON

{{ object | json }}

Dumping object content as JSON can be achieved without using ngFor. Example:

Object

export class SomeComponent implements OnInit {
    public theObject: any = {
        simpleProp: 1,
        complexProp: {
            InnerProp1: "test1",
            InnerProp2: "test2"
        },
        arrayProp: [1, 2, 3, 4]
    };

Markup

<div [innerHTML]="theObject | json"></div>

Output (ran through a beautifier for better readability, otherwise it is output in a single row)

{
  "simpleProp": 1,
  "complexProp": {
    "InnerProp1": "test1",
    "InnerProp2": "test2"
  },
  "arrayProp": [
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4
  ]
}

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I have also discovered a JSON formatter and viewer that displays larger JSON data more readable (similar to JSONView Chrome extension): https://www.npmjs.com/package/ngx-json-viewer

<ngx-json-viewer [json]="someObject" [expanded]="false"></ngx-json-viewer>

<li *ngFor="let obj of myArray">{{obj | json}}</li>